DHHRM | A Shanghai Story: Knocking on the Doors of History

Join us for a stage reading of the play Knocking on the Doors of History and witness a family’s survival in Shanghai and beyond. The play follows the Kaufmann family from their experiences during Kristallnacht, a series of pogroms waged against Jewish-owned businesses, synagogues, and homes on November 9 and 10, 1938 in Germany, to the family’s subsequent escape to Shanghai, China as the last hope for refuge before the outbreak of World War II.

A talk-back conversation will take place in the Cinemark Theater following the performance.

About Hidden History: Recounting the Shanghai Jewish Story

Explore the little-known history of the diverse, resettled Jewish community in Shanghai, including Iraqi Jews who arrived in the mid-1800s, Russian Jews who fled pogroms at the turn of the century, and German and Austrian Jews who desperately escaped the Nazis. With most countries limiting or denying entry to Jews during the 1930s, the free port of Shanghai became an unexpected safe haven for Jews attempting to flee the antisemitic policies and identity-based violence in Nazi-controlled Europe. Hidden History explores this multifaceted history of desperation, loss, and asylum through artifacts, survivor stories, and the photographic lens of prominent American photojournalist Arthur Rothstein, who documented the Shanghai Jewish community in 1946 for the United Nations.

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